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The popular Bob & Tom Show’s app was created by mobile strategy and development company jacapps, and includes access to a live video simulcast of the show.

This may be nothing more than a negotiating ploy by The Writers Guild of America on behalf of workers at 1010 WINS and WCBS-FM. The New York Daily News is reporting that Entercom wants to "cross-utilize" talent and one 1010 WINS editor is quoted in the story saying Entercom plans to fire staffers, "in essence making it one newsroom."

John Brennan, Jenna Kesneck, and Rick Thomas have all been promoted. Market Manager Keith Lawless said, “We are committed to continually developing our people and are fortunate to have the opportunity to elevate some of our top talent to greater responsibility.”

It's been 15 years since Madison Lane abruptly left G105/Raleigh-Durham, NC, where she was half of Bob & Madison’s Showgram. Details have never been released. But now she's been tracked down.

Rob and Joss Taylor are the new morning hosts on Entercom's KYXY-FM in San Diego. The pair co-hosted the morning show for KFGY in Sonoma County, CA, for 13 years.

The Pirate Act increases fines for illegal pirate operations from $10,000 per violation to $100,000 per day per violation, up to a maximum of $2,000,000, and streamlines the FCC’s enforcement. The Pirate Act was approved by The House in a voice vote.

(By Charlie Sislen) Ever since the growth of cable, broadcast TV viewership has eroded. Even with this declining viewership, the four big networks and their affiliates were able to maintain their average unit rate. Reduced viewership combined with flat unit rates resulted in soaring TV costs-per-point. This made radio a cheaper alternative.

Dean Obeidallah (pictured) is asking for more than $1 million in a lawsuit filed against a neo-Nazi website run by Andrew Anglin called The Daily Stormer. Obeidallah hosts a three-hour weekday show on SiriusXM's Progress channel (127).

It’s hard to get a fair share if you don’t first get a fair shake. For years, ethnic- and minority-targeted stations, including Hispanic and Urban, have had to fight their way, sometimes unsuccessfully, to get a place at the buying table.

There’s just no budging Geico from the top of the Media Monitors chart of the biggest national radio advertisers. Last week the insurance giant ran 47,837 spots around the country.